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• Hector Martin's Controversial Question — Would you be okay with us adding some really trivial telemetry to the Asahi installer?
• Berlin with Brent — Brent will be back in Berlin for the Nextcloud Conference and can't get enough of Berlin Meetups! Friday, September 8th, 6 PM.
• Fedora Asahi Remix
• Fedora Asahi Remix Coming For Fedora Linux On Apple Silicon Hardware — Fedora Asahi Remix will be their new flagship distribution for providing a polished Linux experience on Apple Silicon.
• Fedora Asahi Remix: bringing Fedora to Apple Silicon Macs (Flock To Fedora 2023)
• Our new flagship distro: Fedora Asahi Remix — We’re still working out the kinks and making things even better, so we are not quite ready to call this a release yet. We aim to officially release the Fedora Asahi Remix by the end of August 2023. Look forward to many new features, machine support, and more!
• Hector Martin: “Okay, I’m going to be honest…” — I apologize to all Asahi Linux users. You deserve better. When I chose Arch Linux ARM as a base I didn't realize it would have so many basic QA issues.
• Coming soon: Fedora for Apple Silicon Macs! (Fedora Discourse)
• The first conformant M1 GPU driver — Our reverse-engineered, free and open source graphics drivers are the world’s only conformant OpenGL ES 3.1 implementation for M1- and M2-family graphics hardware. That means our driver passed tens of thousands of tests to demonstrate correctness and is now recognized by the industry.
• Asahi Linux’s Apple M1/M2 Gallium3D Driver Now OpenGL ES 3.1 Conformant — It's even more rewarding for the community developers in that Apple doesn't provide any conformant (OpenGL or Vulkan) graphics drivers for their Arm-based platform.
• Feature Support · AsahiLinux/docs Wiki
• Switch to the kernel-16k variant - Fedora Discussion
• NixOS: Unlocking your LUKS via SSH and Tor
• StreetComplete — Easy to use OpenStreetMap editor for Android.
• getumbrel/llama-gpt: A self-hosted, offline, ChatGPT-like chatbot. Powered by Llama 2. 100% private, with no data leaving your device.
• serge-chat/serge: A web interface for chatting with Alpaca through llama.cpp. Fully dockerized, with an easy to use API.
• liltom-eth/llama2-webui: Run any Llama 2 locally with gradio UI on GPU or CPU from anywhere (Linux/Windows/Mac). Use
• llama.cpp — Port of Facebook’s LLaMA model in C/C++
• Llama2.c — Inference Llama 2 in one file of pure C
• Koboldcpp — A simple one-file way to run various GGML models with KoboldAI’s UI
• lollms-webui — Lord of Large Language Models Web User Interface
• LM Studio — Discover, download, and run local LLMs
• text-generation-webui — A Gradio web UI for Large Language Models. Supports transformers, GPTQ, llama.cpp (ggml/gguf), Llama models.
• A comprehensive guide to running Llama 2 locally — Code Llama is a state-of-the-art LLM capable of generating code, and natural language about code, from both code and natural language prompts.
• Meta Releases Code Llama, a Coding Version of Llama 2
• Introducing Code Llama, a state-of-the-art large language model for coding
• Llama and ChatGPT Are Not Open-Source
• Meta launches Llama 2, a source-available AI model that allows commercial applications — A family of pretrained and fine-tuned language models in sizes from 7 to 70 billion parameters.
• Meta’s Llama 2 is not open source — Meta's newly released large language model Llama 2 is not open source.

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• Linux has made it to Mars — “It’s kind of an open-source victory, because we’re flying an open-source operating system and an open-source flight software framework and flying commercial parts that you can buy off the shelf if you wanted to do this yourself someday.”
• Linux Action News 177 — We share some exclusive details about the Linux-powered gear that just landed on Mars, and the open-source frameworks that make it possible.
• [Video] NASA’s Perseverance Rover Sends New Video and Images of the Red Planet
• Introducing Flatpak Builds - Open Build Service — OBS now supports building flatpak bundles, so you can build your own!
• Minecraft Bedrock Launcher on Flathub — The project runs the native libraries from the Android version directly on your computer.
• GNOME Shell + Mutter 40 Beta Released With Wayland Improvements, Overview Redesign — GNOME 40 beta is coming together with the GNOME Shell and Mutter components having seen new releases on Monday.
• GNOME Shell 40 and multi-monitor — Multi-monitor has come up a fair bit in conversations about the GNOME Shell UX updates that are coming in GNOME 40. There’s been some uncertainty and anxiety in this area, so we wanted to provide more detail on what the multi-monitor experience will exactly be like, so people know what to expect.
• PipeWire 0.3.22 Released With Many Improvements — PipeWire 0.3.22 was released this week with a whole lot of work in trying to see that Fedora 34 this spring can ship with it in use by default.
• PipeWire 0.3.22 Release
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• ocenaudio — Easy, fast and powerful audio editor.
• Audacity — Free, open source, cross-platform audio software for multi-track recording and editing.
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• PipeWire — It provides a low-latency, graph based processing engine on top of audio and video devices that can be used to support the use cases currently handled by both pulseaudio and JACK.
• ardour — the digital audio workstation
• Airwindows Plugins
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• Linux Studio Plugins Project
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• Ultrasound — High-end podcasting for everyone.
• Pick: Proton-Caller — Run any Windows program through Valve's Proton.

Plus some important community news, feedback, picks, and more.

Chapters:
0:00 Pre-show
1:37 Intro
2:55 Edge for Linux
7:29 Thelio Mega
16:00 NVIDIA's 5.9 Problem
21:02 PinePhone Manjaro Community Edition
25:44 Housekeeping
30:17 Ubuntu 20.10: Groovy Gorilla
49:33 Feedback
54:11 Picks
57:37 Post-show

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• Thelio Mega - System76
• NVIDIA Doesn’t Expect To Have Linux 5.9 Driver Support For Another Month — Linux Kernel 5.9+ is incompatible with current and previous NVIDIA Linux GPU drivers. We advise customers to defer updating to Linux Kernel 5.9+ until mid-November when an NVIDIA Linux GPU driver update with Kernel 5.9+ support is expected to be available.
• You may want to avoid Linux Kernel 5.9 if you want fully supported NVIDIA drivers
• Frogging-Family/nvidia-all: Nvidia driver 450 to 396 series AIO installer
• PinePhone Manjaro Community Edition | PINE64 — This community edition will ship in a custom presentation box designed by Manjaro’s development team, and the PinePhone itself will feature a sleek-looking Manjaro logo on the back-cover.
• Manjaro ARM Alpha1 with Lomiri (PinePhone) - ARM / Releases - Manjaro Linux Forum
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• Unfilter.show
• Unplugged Core Contributors
• Ubuntu 20.10 Release Date & New Features (Updated) - OMG! Ubuntu! — Desktop lead Martin Wimpress has teased full Ubuntu desktop support for the Raspberry Pi 4 (8GB), much to the delight of the Raspberry Pi fan base.
• Linux 5.8 Released, This is What’s New - OMG! Ubuntu!
• GNOME 3.38 Release Notes
• Groovy Gorilla Release Notes
• Ubuntu To Try Again In Switching IPTables To Use Nftables Backend - Phoronix
• Ubuntu 20.10 Adding Active Directory Support To The Installer - Phoronix — The Ubiquity installer user interface allows specifying the domain, administrator, and password as well as a test for the domain.
• Feedback: ESXi Arm Fling
• Pick: badblocks — badblocks is a program to test storage devices for bad blocks.

Plus our thoughts on the new Plasma release, a super handy pick, and more.

Chapters:
0:00 Pre-Show
0:44 Intro
0:50 SPONSOR: A Cloud Guru
2:39 Plasma 5.20
7:50 Kernel 5.9
8:05 VMware Flirts with Arm
15:28 SPONSOR: Linode
18:54 Big News for Nebula
22:10 Code-Shaming the Kernel
27:40 Housekeeping
29:31 Pop!_OS Exit Interview
31:44 Pop!_OS Full-Time Staff
34:49 Pop!_OS: The Last Ten Percent
37:46 Pop!_OS: A Very Unique Distribution
43:13 Pop!_OS: Driving Hardware Sales
47:40 Pop!_OS: Strengthening the System76 Brand
49:51 Manjaro Arm 20.10 Released
50:48 SPONSOR: A Cloud Guru
51:48 Feedback: TLP Magic
53:23 Feedback: Chromebooks and Education
56:16 Pick: Autotier
59:09 Pick: Antennapod 2.0.1
1:00:30 SPONSOR: Core Contributors
1:01:10 Outro
1:03:18 Post-Show

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• Plasma 5.20 — One absolutely massive release!
• ESXi on Arm Fling is LIVE! — The ESXi-Arm Fling supports a number of different Arm platforms ranging from a traditional Datacenter form-factor to both Near and Far Edge systems including the highly requested Raspberry Pi.
• ESXi Arm Edition | VMware Flings
• Great News for Nebula
• Nebula for iOS and Android is now available | Defined Networking — In February of this year, Nate and I left Slack to start a company together, Defined Networking, Inc., to focus on Nebula full-time.
• Mobile Nebula on the App Store
• LUP 329: Flat Network Truthers
• The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% Of The Linux Kernel — With Linux 5.9, it comes in at 2.16 million lines of code plus another 247k lines of code comments and another 109k blank lines.
• AMD Graphics Driver Hacker News Thread
• All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows
• Pop!_OS by System76
• Unplugged Core Contributors
• Manjaro ARM 20.10 released!
• Feedback: TLP Magic
• Feedback: Chromebooks and Education
• PIck: autotier — A passthrough FUSE filesystem that intelligently moves files between storage tiers based on the frequency of use, file age, and tier fullness.
• AntennaPod 2.0.1 Changelog

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• Craig Loewen on Twitter: “@Kiview @thezigpc @cinnamon_msft @satyanadella Our initial prototypes use Wayland”
• Hayden Barnes on Twitter: “WSL2 is getting GUI support, pass-through GPU support, and a new way to easily install.”
• Hayden Barnes on Twitter: "More glimpses of GUI support for WSL 2 from @shanselman and @cinnamon_msft
• DirectX ❤ Linux | DirectX Developer Blog
• Windows Terminal 1.0
• Windows 10 Is Getting Its Own Built-In Package Manager
• PineTab pre-orders open in late May
• PineTab running UBPorts with 5.6 kernel and Lima graphics drivers
• ManjaroBook AMD Ryzen
• Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar!
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• Pi-hole v5.0 is here!
• Inside the Brotherhood of Pi-hole Ad Blockers
• Linux Mint Success from Zachary
• Pi Boot question from Kamil
• Raspberry Pi 4 USB Boot Config Guide for SSD / Flash Drives
• XPS Feedback Request
• Pick: multi-boot ISO USB
• Ventoy: just copy the iso file to the USB drive and boot it!

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• Microsoft Teams is now available on Linux
• Microsoft Teams is the first Office app for Linux | VentureBeat
• Black Friday Sale is almost done!
• NVIDIA Looks To Have Some Sort Of Open-Source Driver Announcement For 2020
• WireGuard VPN is a step closer to mainstream adoption
• How to setup your own VPN server using WireGuard on Ubuntu
• Chris Noticed his Manjaro mirrors were REALLY slow this AM
• Christmas Student Contest! | The Mad Botter — We are running a contest for High-School students to win a System76 Thelio Linux PC on us. To qualify you must be a US high-school student with your parents permission to participate and write a small FOSS project and publish it on GitHub.
• Perfect Plasma Setup - From Basic to Brilliant - YouTube
• Jupiter Extras: Brunch with Brent: Alan Pope
• Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram Jupiterbroadcasting.com/telegram
• WireGuard
• Snapper
• pacupg
• snap-pac: Pacman hooks that use snapper to create pre/post btrfs snapshots like openSUSE’s YaST
• Docker + systemd-network Surprise - Bootloader Blog
• Docker - ArchWiki
• A reliable fix to Docker not keeping it’s IPV4 address on Arch - VADOSWARE
• ubuntu - Docker service starts before ZFS - Server Fault
• grub-btrfs: Include btrfs snapshots in the grub menu
• Feedback: Arch Update Catch-Up Tips

Plus Clear Linux aims to build the ultimate Linux desktop based on Xfce, and it looks like GNOME is closing the performance gap.

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• Reiser4 File-System Port To The Linux 4.20 Kernel — Edward Shishkin, the last main Reiser4 developer involved and former employee of Hans Reiser's Namesys company, has updated his Reiser4 kernel tree where there is now the few code changes necessary to get the file-system kernel module building for Linux 4.20 along with a patch containing a fix.
• Chrome OS to test early GPU support for Linux apps
• The Many Features Coming To The Wine 4.0
• GNOME Shell Desktop Gaming Benchmarks

Plus Wimpy shares his open source Drobo alternative, and our final Dropbox XFS hack.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Martin Wimpress, and Matthew Miller.

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• Are people forgetting what open source is? — There is a responsibility for the dev to make sure they vet what is being put into, but also a larger responsibility for large company's to vet dependency themselves, such as this package event-stream
• International Space Station switches from Windows to Linux — “We migrated key functions from Windows to Linux because we needed an operating system that was stable and reliable.”
• LinuxFest Northwest 2019 — LinuxFest Northwest is an annual Open Source event co-produced by Bellingham Linux Users Group and the Information Technology department at Bellingham Technical College
• SnapRAID — SnapRAID is a backup program for disk arrays. It stores parity information of your data and it recovers from up to six disk failures.
• mergerfs — A featureful union filesystem.
• Fedora 31 Will Likely Be Cancelled Or Significantly Delayed — It's about trying to re-tool the distribution and restructure the way its developed to rely more upon automated testing, improving the release processes, and related infrastructure to make it more scalable and better for the longer-term.
• Fedora Mailing-Lists: Lifecycle objective - problems, solutions, and proposal
• Fedora Wiki: Objectives/Lifecycle/Problem statements
• Current 12-18 Month Community Objectives
• Fedora Council Charter
• Dropbox Filesystem Fix — Fix the filesystem detection in the Linux Dropbox client.

Plus some community news, old friends return, and much more.

Special Guest: Martin Wimpress.

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• Project Crostini progressing towards GPU acceleration
• Desktop team report from GUADEC 2018
• PowerShell launches as a snap
• Open The Cosmic Gate
• Slackware Needs Help
• A year on — our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on Linux.
• REAPER 5.93 Brings New Linux-Native Builds
• Hiri best email client for Windows, Mac and Linux